Then this is more like comparison between Cargo and whatever-C-using. If a project decided not to use cargo, then Rust would have the same problem.

I acknowledge that C needs a tool as good as cargo, but if we are comparing language, we should restrict to language.

I wonder why we are not storing base DTB on the board, just enough to boot the board.

Your point is quite valid, but example is wrong. Those vapes can have a lot of puff in them, they need to be really heavy smoker to smoke out in 1 session.

But reuseable vape has more stuff to manage and hide, and they are more expensive in short run.

I just dont understand disposable vape. It's very easy to convert one into "reuseable": Add a charging port, a cheap li-po charger ic, some mechanism to let user refill the boiler. Disposeable vape should have not existed at first place

Some of them (actually most of them where I live) are rechargeable, they're not refillable and you can't change the atomizer (wick and coil). And the most expensive part of the vape is the tax on nicotine liquid, so there is little sense to hassle with wicks and refills.

Given the environmental impact of disposable vapes (the littering was awful), some places have already implemented bans. The UK's ban came into force June 2025.

> Disposable vape should have not existed at first place

When herbal vapes for cannabis came in around 5-10 years ago, it was the catalyst that started all this. Pax are the main manufacturer of these disposable vapes and one of the first on the scene to push THC following with nicotine. These were originally expensive, bulky and seen as an luxury item. I bought one, an DeVinci Ascent, I loved it.

I used it to hide that I was smoking cannabis from my parents and all the opportunities to walk the families dog and get high were wasted by playing CS:S and getting high. Teenage-hood for you.

Coil driven vapes are a different ball-game. Require actual human intervention and know-how. They are refillable in a sensible way, coils need replacing and I've seen some very cool rigs.

A USB port is pointless if you know that the user isn't going to refill the cart. If you can produce the device cheaply and not get taxed for the environmental waste. Add the R&D costs, additional safety, additional materials for the tank. What do you do with the now empty toxic tank? There are additional costs for stocking vape shops to refill the liquid. The latter is a more sustainable business option than the former.

They know the playbook. They would much prefer for you to be out with mates, stop off at a newsagents, pick up some chemical brain-rotting Dragon Soup and grab an elf-bar. Act like a twat outside of the venue and then throw it on the ground. Anything to do with vaping is foul-play. The Alcohol biz is tightly knitted with the vape/smoking biz.

Disposable also gives you plausible deniability. They get in trouble, close up shop. Relabel their brand and start again.

I maybe get hate here, but i like the start menu of win11(without counting the AI/Ads part) more than winXP.

The search in Win 11 is better. For ex: I need to change display timeout setting. I vastly remember it's in "power option" menu, and power option is in control panel. But i cant remember exactly how to reach "power option" from "control panel". In windows 11, i can just type "power option" and it would direct me to the power option screen, meanwhile in XP, i had to explore around before reaching it.

I think "Search" in Start menu is kind of heading in right direction(imo they should remove the search-on-internet), just need to improve performance.

They can design a Motherboard that can be used in both laptop and this machine, so no need for double NRE.

Well, it looks "cleaner" and more "professional" than hanging a lump behind your monitor. It may not benifit to all people, but it is not worse than exist option, so, why not.

The ultimate question is "Would you give up the right of owning your machine to have access to services", and with the decline of rooting scene on Android, the answer is pretty clear.

And those young people are manipulated by the older part of population.

>someone had a case that burned them in some previous project and now his life mission is to prevent that from happening ever again

Isn't that what makes them senior ? If you dont want that behaviour, just hire a bunch of fresh grad.

No, extrapolating from one bad experience to universal approach does not make anyone senior.

There are situations where it applies and situation where it doesn't. Having the experience to see what applies in this new context is what senior (usually) means.

The people I admire most talk a lot more about "risk" than about "right vs. wrong". You can do that thing that caused that all-nighter 5 years ago, it isn't "wrong", but it is risky, and the person who pulled that all-nighter has useful information about that risk. It often makes sense to accept risks, but it's always good to be aware that you're doing so.

It's also important to consider the developers risk tolerance as well. It's all fine and dandy that the project manager is okay with the risk but what if none of the developers are? Or one senior dev is okay with it but the 3 who actually work the on-call queue are not?

I don't get paid extra for after hours incidents (usually we just trade time), so it's well within my purview on when to take on extra risk. Obviously, this is not ideal, but I don't make the on-call rules and my ability to change them is not a factor.

I don't think of this as a project manager's role, but an engineering manager's role. The engineers on the team (especially the senior engineers) should be identifying the risks, and the engineering managers should be deciding whether they are tolerable. That includes risks like "the oncall is awful and morale collapses and everyone quits".

It's certainly the case that there are managers who handle those risks poorly, but that's just bad management.

Nope, not realizing something doesn't apply and not being able to take in arguments is cargo culting not being a senior.